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found: Russia's parliamentary election and constitutional referendum, 1994:p. 3 (On Sept. 21, 1993, President Boris Yeltsin dissolved the Supreme Soviet, claiming that parliament had "lost its ability to fulfill the main function of a representative body". He introduced presidential rule for 3 months prior to elections and issued a decree calling for Dec. 11 and 12 elections to a new Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation) p. 7 (Yeltsin"s Sept. decree mandated a bicameral parliament (Federal Assembly)[Federalʹnoe Sobranie]: a 450-member lower house (the State Duma)[Gosudarstvennai︠e︡ Duma], which resembles the U.S. House of Representatives, and a 178-member upper house (the Federation Council)[Sovet Federat︠s︡ii], analogous to the U.S. Senate)

found: Pi︠a︡tai︠a︡ Rossiĭskai︠a︡ Gosudarstvennai︠a︡ Duma, 1994:p. 3, etc. (Gosudarstvenai︠a︡ Duma, Gosdumy; the first Duma was established by law on 6 August 1905 with the imperial decree of Czar Nicholas II. There were four sessions of the Duma: the first starting from April 1906 and the forth ending in Jan. 1918 when it was dissolved by the Bolsheviks. The newly reconstituted 5th Gos. Duma was elected on 12 Dec. 1993 after the abolishment of the Verkhovnyĭ Sovet, which itself was to lead to the forming of the Federalʹnoe Sobranie)